Re: rel="shortlink" proposal for advertising short URLs in HTML/HTTP

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Wed, 22 April 2009 20:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: rel="shortlink" proposal for advertising short URLs in HTML/HTTP
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> Is any of this specific to short links or does it apply across the
> board? I would suggest the latter.

It does, but the connection to short links is that if a page offers a
"short link" (or a client asks for one), there probably has to be some
way to communicate the scope.  Otherwise, the client or user won't
know what to rely on the short link for.

Barry